Sleeping together... how tired you were... How warm our room... how the firelight spread On walls and ceiling and great white bed! We spoke in whispers as children do, And now it was I -- and then it was you Slept a moment, to wake -- "My dear, I'm not at all sleepy," one of us said.... Was it a thousand years ago? I woke in your arms -- you were sound asleep -- And heard the pattering sound of sheep. Softly I slipped to the floor and crept To the curtained window, then, while you slept, I watched the sheep pass by in the snow. O flock of thoughts with their shepherd Fear Shivering, desolate, out in the cold, That entered into my heart to fold! A thousand years... was it yesterday When we two children of far away, Clinging close in the darkness, lay Sleeping together?... How tired you were.... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FABRIC OF LIFE by KAY RYAN SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 6 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING LULLABY by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS by THOMAS HARDY THE MAY MAGNIFICAT by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) |